Trying out Joomla 1.5RC: Part 2

I have been a little busy so it took me a couple days to go back to my Joomla 1.5RC install and see what works and what doesn't.

First of all I went to my /joomla folder and I noticed something that I suppose occurred before. I got an error message saying "the URL is not valid and cannot be loaded".

I did a search for the error message in the built in help and found nothing.  I posted a message in the Joomla forum and am waiting for a reply.

I did a search and some people mentioned seeing 'http://' when using Internet Explorer. I use Firefox almost exclusively and I tried the URL in IE and I see the page start to load and then a blank page with http:///

Sounds strange, doesn't it?

So I decided to go back to the Joomla forum because I remember seeing blank page after install with http:// which wasn't my problem at least with Firefox.

I saw that someone else had the same error but no one had replied with a solution.

It seems like a nice program and everything else looked interesting in Firefox, but since most people use IE I can't use Joomla 1.5RC.

I might try the older version but since they aren't compatible I'll be causing a lot of work for myself.